Faisal Islam
Ken v Mandy, ‘it’s mostly monetary” and the gift of the Gabay
Ken vs Mandy, “it’s mostly monetary” for the Tories and the gift of the Gabay, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Jon Snow
I leave Brazil an optimist
Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Jon Snow
Public money behind the surge in stock market trading
I have blogged before about the role “unproductive” trades are playing in the current stock market boom. The FT today reports Goldman Sachs only posted one day’s trading loss in the past quarter – the quarter before saw two such days. On 35 of the 65 days of trading in the last quarter the company…
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Obama at the polls – one year on
Sarah Smith blogs on one year from Obama’s anniversary of his election and what polls matter now.
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Jon Snow
Why the banks have stopped lending
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow insists there are no signs of increaed credit being made available in Europe despite the campaigns by politicians and senior economists.
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Jon Snow
Evolution in Coventry
Sunny morning in London. Rainy morning in Coventry – yet amazingly only 58 minutes apart by rail; I was there to deliver a lecture for Coventry University. The place nestles around the cathedral in the centre of the city – the lecture was actually in the nave of it. I had first visited the bomb…
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Faisal Islam
American banks’ ‘amazing steal’
“I think the banks have pulled one. They maybe didn’t plan on it, but looking back it’s quite an amazing steal… “The banks got an amazing deal last September, they were rescued by the taxpayer, and then refloated themselves giving the taxpayer very little of the upside and now they are going to have very…
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Back to bank bonuses: crisis survivors
America’s banks rake in bumper profits just six months after they were on the ropes, begging for government bailouts. Faisal Islam went to the US to find out what the legacy of the banking crisis is.
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Jon Snow
My bet would be on Australia
For what it is worth, and it is worth very little, I think the Aussies are going to win the Lords test today. They will get the remaining 200 runs with one wicket to spare, and I say this after watching them for the two hours before bad light stopped play last night and watching most…
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Jon Snow
Dead aid to Africa's North-South Corridor?
DFID, the UK aid department, asked me to volunteer to come down here to Lusaka in Zambia to help “facilitate” the launch of the North-South Corridor project for which they and other donors have thus far raised $1.35bn. It involved four presidents, the head of the WTO, a DFID minister, an EU commissioner, international banks,…
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The bank bailout – how would it affect us?
Within a week in October 2008 the US and UK governments were forced to bailout their banks in order to save the economic system as the credit crunch began to bite.
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FactCheck Q&A: Is Saudi Arabia funding ISIS?
The Wikileaks files suggest there have been western efforts to “bring pressure” on Saudi Arabia to end its support for ISIS.
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What Britain wants from the G8 summit
As leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies head to the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, David Cameron has put tax at the top of the agenda.
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Faisal Islam
IMF: Banks should pay their own way and no ‘Robin Hood’ tax
Faisal Islam blogs on the IMF report into making banks pay their own way
